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RE: NFS server (final?)
- From: "Robb, Sam" <sam dot robb at timesys dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:16:35 -0500
- Subject: RE: NFS server (final?)
> > What's the recommended way of dealing with this? The code
> in the server
> > does something along the lines of:
> >
> > seteuid(ROOT_UID)
> > setegid(gid)
> > setgroups(len, gids)
> > seteuid(uid)
> >
> > (Error checking obviously ignored.) From what I can tell
> in the Cygwin
> > docs, the seteuid(ROOT_UID) call shouldn't be neccesary:
>
> That's right. I'd suggest you suggest running it under
> SYSTEM account.
> E. g. cron relies on that, too.
Corinna,
Thanks you very much! I'll make the changes, rebuild and
post new binaries & source today.
Thanks again,
-Samrobb